Outcast : What is Kyle?

I know the textbook defintion of outcast, but what is he outcast from exactly? It seems to me his powers make him a valuable member of society, not a pariah.

Also, are he and the minister really battling demons or something else? Sydney said something to Kyle about "we come into your world." Are he and others just on another plane of existence but can move back and forth between both worlds? Or are they definitely the christian version of demons?

I'm not sure what these creatures are exactly. Everytime I think I've got them figured out, new pieces of information are revealed that ends up contradicting my initial theory. Now these things are referring to themselves as "saints," which makes me believe that they might be angels with a twisted agenda.

Might it, being labeled an outcast, have something to do with how the community responded to him after the issues 1st with his mom then his wife

maybe he is some kind of Kal-El kind of outcast, sent out by his other-dimensional/planet mother to be saved from his world. Sydney did say they could't live anymore where they're from, so Kyle-El may have been sent illegaly or by other means to the earth plane/realm/universe/dimension. And that makes him a pariah but also a beacon, cause' he was born human after all(not like the rest who have to posses other humans)

I read the latest edition of the comic and in that continuity (which has several plot and side character differences, but so far no noticeable differences in concept), Kyle is still captured.

There is a long conversation between Sidney and Kyle. As I understand it, the Outcasts have something in them from the realm where the "demons" (I'll just use this word for convenience) come from.

Whatever this was, it was hated by the demons and expelled from their home (which sounds to me like either a supernatural realm or another dimension radically different from what we'd consider physical in the conventional sense) and came to our world.

It became part of certain humans, who are the Outcasts and are needed as guides and in some cases a kind of energy source as the demons invade and take over people.

I'm going with the angel or zephilum theory. Maybe Kyle is different because HE'S the one who is actually a demon/fallen angel, hence the label "Outcast". Sydney said "we land where we land" and told Kyle they were both from the same place.

My son and I watch it together and he's thinking "aliens" from another planet.

I agree with you. I think Kyle is the human imbodiment of Lucifer, and the others are angels, seraphim, or what have you that have also been outcast, they need Him for a guide maybe?

My thoughts exactly. Though that doesn't quite explain why he has the power to pull the other creatures from possessed bodies. It also doesn't explain why his daughter has the same ability.
Could be that Kyle is what you say and his daughter inherited his ability because.. genetic angel powers or something, but everyone else IS actually a demon and they can't stay where they're from because God's decided to close up shop.

The could be aliens and The Doctor is going to arrive in his Tardis and send them packing.

Just my two cents, but I don't think they are Demons in the way we are introduced to them as Demons. When Rev is watching old tapes it is clear that they are playing along w/ the Demon/exorcist shtick after the fact. I don't think their aliens in the conventional sense either, as in from another planet. Perhaps our idea of what a Demon is was inspired by them, whatever they are. I've not read the graphic novel, but I've seen all the episodes and think they're from outside our reality, other dimensional beings.

I do get more of a n 'Invasion of the Bodysnatchers' feel from it, which is likely where they're going with the story. I don't understand what Kyle is exactly, but obviously he's from the same place, just different for whatever reason. But I dig it!

I'm thinking: an alternative universe with slightly different laws of physics and some serious problems - so serious that they have to get out.

And Kyle could be a descendant of the first experimental cross-over - a guy who went native and had an accidental of intentional ability to send the "alties" back.

They could be demons, angels expelled from heaven, hence they can't stay where they're from?

Just finished the last episode of season 1, and have been thinking of that.


The others could be spiritual or non-corporeal beings from another planet or dimension.

Kyle seems different as he can affect them yet they are drawn to him and need him. I also wonder what it is they suck from him but it doesn't seem to permanently damage or diminish him so perhaps whatever it is they're doing is natural, like a breast feeding mother. I was wondering if Kyle was inhabited as a baby or toddler which explains why he doesn't remember the transition yet out doesn't explain why he is different from the rest of the 'demons.' So I believe that he like his daughter were born as they were yet from the other demon place. Maybe they are aliens that descended from the first demons that came to earth but a different sort not like how the ones are now. Because I don't see how he could be so powerful and useful to demons if by each succeeding generation, whatever he is becomes more human as opposed to demon/alien/whatever. Maybe the answer lies in who his father is. Maybe in this universe, Jesus was an alien too just like Kyle?